S.T.R.E.A.M Learning Center
Why Junior Explorers?
Junior Explorers is a S.T.R.E.A.M learning centre (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art & Mathematics) for children from age 3-12 years old. We provide international licensed creative learning programs:-
Bricks4kidz (Creative Lego)
Dinus Art (Art & Craft,)
Numeracy Explorers (Fun Math)
Literacy Explorers (English)
Junior Bakers (Baking)
Junior Explorers, is a very child friendly creative learning center where children develop their life-skills, at the same acquiring knowledge through interesting lessons and activitiies. As we believe “Learning should be fun!” and our children will definitely learn better in a stress-free environment.
In Junior Explorers, we always encourage our teachers to “add values” to their lessons. Therefore, we have included many hands-on activities for the children, to enhance their fine motor skills as well as to spark their imagination. During the lesson, we help children to develop their pprocess-oriented thinking with many more interactive activities.
Numeracy Explorers
Developing a solid math foundation early on can help children gain a thorough understanding of basic math concepts, as well as set the stage for more complex topics. Without a good understanding of basic math principles, more advanced concepts become difficult to grasp.
With Numeracy Explorers, the youngest of students can attain a solid understanding of numerous skills with our interactive math lessons. Math doesn’t have to be painful or frustrating. Numeracy Explorers curriculum combines engaging online and offline resources and materials that teach and reinforce math concepts.
Numeracy Explorers curriculum puts extra attention on math facts during early elementary. Children can practice and master crucial math facts. Being able to recall math facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division quickly and effortlessly helps create a solid foundation that helps pave the way for future math success. When your students develop a solid math foundation, you’ll be amazed to see their grades improve and the stress disappear. You might even hear that math is fun!
Numeracy Explorers curriculum contains a wide range of math activities, which cover more than just arithmetic, math facts, and operations. Our curriculum teaches these five math strands:
- Number Sense and Operations – Knowing how to represent numbers, recognizing ‘how many’ are in a group, and using numbers to compare and represent paves the way for grasping number theory, place value and the meaning of operations and how they relate to one another.
- Algebra – The ability to sort and order objects or numbers and recognizing and building on simple patterns are examples of ways children begin to experience algebra. This elementary math concept sets the groundwork for working with algebraic variables as a child’s math experience grows.
- Geometry and Spatial Sense – Children build on their knowledge of basic shapes to identify more complex 2-D and 3-D shapes by drawing and sorting. They then learn to reason spatially, read maps, visualize objects in space, and use geometric modeling to solve problems. Eventually children will be able to use coordinate geometry to specify locations, give directions and describe spatial relationships.
- Measurement – Learning how to measure and compare involves concepts of length, weight, temperature, capacity and money. Telling the time and using money links to an understanding of the number system and represents an important life skill.
- Data Analysis and Probability – As children collect information about the world around them, they will find it useful to display and represent their knowledge. Using charts, tables, graphs will help them learn to share and organize data.
Curriculum Overview
Preschool Numeracy Explorers (age 3-4)
Preschoolers will enjoy dozens of fun, engaging activities that help them build a solid foundation in math. With themes like counting together, match the shape, let’s measure, and more, children will become familiar with basic concepts that will set the stage for the learning that will take place during the elementary years.
Kindergarten Numeracy Explorers (age 4-6)
Kindergarten Numeracy Explorers offers curriculum for kindergarten math with specific chapters, interactive activities, offline worksheets, quizzes and fun games to engage the child in learning math fundamentals. Topics covered including counting to 100, read and write numbers to 10, and simple addition and subtraction problems.
Elementary Numeracy Explorers (age 7-12)
Our Elementary Numeracy Explorers begins by teaching younger children the five math strands which include number sense and operations, algebra, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, and data analysis and probability.
Literacy Explorers
Literacy Explorers Program offers a comprehensive literacy program meant to build strong communication skills by deepening children’s understanding of the English language through speaking, reading and writing.
This program is designed to give children from Preschool (Pre-K) to Fifth (5th) grades a comprehensive, standards-based education that includes phonics, reading fluency, grammar, writing, listening, comprehension and more. Literacy Explorers helps the youngest learners build their phonemic awareness, develop their literacy as they grow, and then allow them to be successful readers and writers.The beauty of Literacy Explorers is that we follow a child-paced approach that grants them the freedom to redo activities and lessons or retake tests and quizzes if need be.
The materials are delivered using a combination of animated lessons, instructional videos, worksheets, quizzes, tests and both online and offline projects designed to develop and build literacy from the basics.
Literacy Explorers includes the following subjects:
- Phonics – Understanding sounds through letter recognition, blending, and decoding is the foundation for rereading and reading, which leads to fluency. Fluency is the ability to sound out familiar and unfamiliar words in text while reading.
- Reading – Building critical thinking skills through pre-reading, reading comprehension, making inferences, asking questions, summarizing, comparing and contrasting, analyzing characters, and identifying cause and effect creates an understanding of literature.
- Grammar – Developing skills in spelling, punctuation, parts of speech, verb tenses and sentence types leads to better reading writing, listening and speaking.
- Vocabulary – Learning multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, parts of speech, and using context clues help students broaden their oral expression, writing, and speaking skills.
- Writing – Beginning with prewriting, applying the writing process, sentence and paragraph structure, sequencing, conventions, various genres of composition, response, analysis, and creative thinking structures students’ writing.
- Spelling – Learning specific letter combinations, understanding the relationship between sounds and letters, patterning of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC), short and long vowel sounds, sight words, commonly misspelled words, subject-specific terminology, etymology of words.
Curriculum Overview
Preschool Literacy Explorers (age 3-4)
Preschoolers will start building their pre-reading skills with fun activities and lessons. The Preschool Literacy Explorers features numerous themes such as My ABCs, At The Zoo, Days of the Week, and more, all spread across various levels.
Kindergarten Literacy Explorers (age 4-6)
For kindergarten children who are becoming more familiar with letters and the sounds they make, the Literacy Explorers curriculum helps these budding readers and writers meet their milestones in fun and engaging ways. Children delve deeper into the particular sights and sounds of each letter in the alphabet so they can develop a solid foundation and thorough understanding of phonics before beginning their journey into reading.
Elementary Literacy Explorers (age 7-12)
For children in first through fifth grades, the Literacy Explorers curriculum focuses on mastering numerous skills such as phonics and reading fluency for the earlier grades, and then building grammar, reading comprehension, writing skills, and more.
Do come and visit us for further inquiry, experience the difference of Junior Explorers!
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